“You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.”

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.

Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?

Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.

With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.

The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.

Our most merciless enemy is our past.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

When one loves somebody, everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.

What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.

The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.

You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.

Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence or repression.

Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

I just like to shake things up, and your hair is one way to do it.

I’ve always weaseled my way into Grammy parties to network and everything, but now I have a legitimate reason to be there – it’s so cool.

Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

The only way to kill death is through photography.